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AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

*Natural Neon* // ALTERED CARBON x STATION 11 A nightclub dancer risks an illegal neural implant to pay for her brother's meds, but when it connects her to other lifetimes, she becomes the key to humanity's next evolution—and its extinction. #QuestPit #A #Q #S #D #U

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.com · 04/06/2026

Hey #WritingCommunity, I'm thrilled to announce I'll be appearing in this year's @tbrcon.bsky.social: an award-winning free online writer's convention! I will be a panelist for "Writing Fear on the Page". If you're looking to make your writing scarier, tune on on YouTube from 9-10:30 AM on July 28.

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

RECURSION x THE OTHER VALLEY When an anxious physics doctoral fellow finds her nervous thoughts have been replaced with visions of possible futures, she'll have to stop the murder of her funding stealing rival, or risk a future darker than anything she's worried about. #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #T #Up

Project anxious foresight moodboard. Physics, math, doctorate, quantum, chase, explosion

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Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 Follow BYMMS on Backerkit! @linnfoster.com · 23/05/2026

🌙 BETWEEN YOU, ME, AND THE MOONLIT SEA 🌊 Bell is a gumiho who wants one thing: true love. Sadly, it seems out of reach-- until they meet Tae. The problem? They also want to hill him and devour his soul. 🏳️‍🌈 Genderfluid MC 💚 Aro-Pan Love Interest 💥 Complicated Bestie Feelings #WIPPit #A #F #R #LGBT

BETWEEN YOU, ME, AND THE MOONLIT SEA: genderfluid MC; aro-pan love interest; music appreciation; fox politics; shapeshifters; bestie drama; strangers to friends to lovers; human/nonhuman relationship; family drama; queer side cast. (Art by @cryling.)

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

YESTERYEAR x MEXICAN GOTHIC She loved her dark romance book boyfriends, until they came to claim her. 📖 Dark Romance BookTok-er 🏰 Mansion Turned Lab Day-Job ⚗️ Accidental Portal ⚔️ Seven Unleashed Dark MMC’s 🩸 A bloody obsession 🥮 Cinnamon Roll Coworker #WipPit #A #Spec #SF #F #SFF #H #G #Up

PROJECT BITTER PAGES
Genre Blending Upmarket Speculative
By Cassie Wallin
She loved her dark book boyfriends...
until they came to claim her

PITCH
When a chronically alone booktoker accidentally releases the men of her dark romance books during her day-job in a mansion turned private lab, she's caught, between the seduction of what she thought she wanted and the violence that comes with. Her only hope? To close the portal in the mansion with the help of a cinnamon roll coworker who, if fictional, she'd definitely DNF.

NEW YEK TIMES BESTIELLER
HUSBANDS
HOLLY CRÁMAZIO
CARO CLAIRE BURKE
Yesteryear
COMPS
PO MN
ONY Y GHLIN
influencer
critique & ironic justice
Critique of the
partners we
desire
PLSAT
unie
Bot
HOVOL
SIERRA
OREER
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SPLIT FICTION
duplicating love
interests, but make it evil
MEXICAN
G O
THIC
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
gothic dread & violence of
obsession
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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

TREASURE PLANET × FIREFLY × COWBOY BEBOP After finding an old wrist computer on a desiccated corpse, a bookish scavenger teams up with a prodigal engineer to discover its contents while going toe to toe with a ruthless pirate captain on a lawless space station colony. #WIPPIT #A #SF

A sci-fi book cover featuring a digital illustration of a young man with messy brown hair and a smudge-faced expression, looking upward and to the right. He wears a worn, blue jacket with dirt patches and a pair of brass-rimmed goggles with glowing green lenses resting around his neck. The background depicts space, filled with stars and a large purple and pink textured planet surrounded by a ring of dark space debris. A black silhouette of a futuristic space station stands out against the planet. At the top, the title reads "JAK STERZAND" in large, bold, green-shadowed white letters, with the subtitle "ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT" in glowing yellow text underneath. At the bottom, it reads "A novel by B. van Bodegom" in white text.

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Crystal Bayless ✍🏻is writing & editing✍🏻 @crystalbauthor.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The Mercies x Corrag (The Highland Witch) x Witch Child Arealia is an orphaned witch who is not liked by the kingdom’s most popular girl. Can she survive the hunt that's out to take her life? #W #A #F #WIPPIT

Black background

At the top is the title Rutello: Arealia and the Last Flame in a 2 toned orange cursive font with flames to each side.

Top 2 pics are: a girl shadowed in front of Fire and a witch hunt in an old village with torches and pitchforks.

Bottom 2 pics are: a coven of pagan women in white celebrating Beltane and a woman shadowed by the fire of a funeral pyre.

At the bottom in a 2 toned orange cursive font is a quote: “Too many people abuse the power of choice. Too many people take the power of choice away from others.” - Jaysea Lynn, For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hells Belles, #1)

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B. R. Fontenot is querying 📚☀️🌷🦊 @brfontenotwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

WOLF WORM x DON'T LET THE FOREST IN THE TREES HAVE TEETH - An Appalachian Folkhorror (currently drafting) 🌲 💀 🐇 Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes. #WIPPit #W #H #A

PITCH

Olive is eight the first time Death comes for her. She’s nineteen the second time. And Olive knows Death always comes in threes.

In the heart of the Appalachian mountains, something wicked lingers in the woods. Olive grew up running barefoot through the trees without fear of what might be lurking. But when the woods begin to devour anything that encroaches with ruthless hunger, and a mysterious man who claims to know both the cause and the cure appears at Olive’s door, she may have to face Death for the third (and final) time. If she doesn’t, the town and the boy she loves will be eaten whole.

Knock. Knock. Knock.

COMPS
Wolf Worm, Don't Let the Forest In, Hazelthorn, Morsel, Hollow

Botanical Horror, Appalachian Mountain Setting, Nature & Rot, Isolated Setting, Eerie Folklore

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

These Curses We Bear: X-MEN x BROTHERS GRIMM Hana is cursed—but she’s not alone. Misfits. Outcasts. Abominations. Sure. But they might just be the kingdom's only hope. #WIPPIT #WIP #F #YA

A dark woodland with a light shining through the trees off in the distance, and a flock of birds taking flight. The title reads These Curses We Bear, and at the top is the tagline, If the cursed won't help the cursed, who will? At the bottom is the writer's name, M. A. Holland.

A dark woodland, with a flock of birds flying out of the frame. Text over the picture reads, Everyone's curse is different. But everyone's curse is the same. Underneath is the title These Curses We Bear.

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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

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Biollante @bivouacchillin.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

This is true. #WritingCommunity Don't give up. (Just in case you needed to hear that today.)

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AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My poem is now available to read in Small Wonders! For the full experience, it's best read when you're hungry or surviving a post-apocalyptic event 😬

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Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com · 06/05/2026

"A Fine Powder" by AMaskley tells such a story about the world with a narrow focus on one person. Read it in our latest issue today:

smallwondersmag.com

A Fine Powder - Small Wonders

the last of it drifts into a soft dune, / pale as bone dust, fine as fallout. / A ghost of a meal.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This one hurts on an extremely personal level.

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

It's May! Time for May goals! - Finally finish the short fic I've been working on all year and sub it to BCS. - Add 10K to CursesWIP. - Find at least two new calls to write a story for and sub to. - WIPPit maybe?

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PWJames (Writer) @pwjamesauthor.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

🟣AGENT'S GUIDE 🟣 🟣A GAME OF MACHINES AND MONSTERS 🟣 🟣YA SPEC FIC / HORROR 🟣 🟣STATUS: QUERYING 🟣 #WritingCommunity / #AmWriting / #AmEditing / #Querying / #AmQuerying / #WritersLife / #Writing

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Eddie Fletcher thinks he’s on the wrong end of a wind up, though MI5 isn’t prone to practical jokes, but it doesn’t take him long to realise a rift in time is no laughing matter - especially when the government thinks he's responsible and wants him dead. #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

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Gert Ramm 🦋 @rammwriter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Mission Brief 13/01/1972 TOP SECRET 🕑 Infiltrate time travel seminar 🕵‍♂️ Take out Soviet spies 🔫 Use a gun ❌️ Don't laugh at the agenda 📃 It’s all theoretical 😕 Apart from *that* demo ✅️ Full government endorsement 👍 Nothing can go wrong 🇷🇺 💣 💥 ⬛️ Redacted #QuestPit #A #Q #SF #T

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A.B. Koga @abkoga.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

FIRE SAFE & BRIMSTONE SOUND The deconstruction power fantasy you never knew you needed. ✅ Contemporary & relevant ✅ Adult fantasy & dark academia ✅ Psychological & cosmic horror ✅ Romance & spice ✅ Underrepresented & #ownvoices #QuestPit #AG #A #DF

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✨ Joy Shaw | Author ✨ @joyshaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

JESSICA JONES × ARCANE 🔥 vigilante with CPTSD 🧬 trauma = living glyph-code 🧠 subterranean inventor 🐀 rat seers 🩸 trafficked girls ☄️ Manhattan’s ruins fed by grief ✨ veiled rebels ⚙️ emotion-run weapons 🗡️ fighting mutation 🕯️ healing as resistance ❤️ love as presence #QuestPit #Q #A #DF #ND #MythTech

Collage-style moodboard featuring glowing infinity symbols on two hands reaching, a small rat, a red eye, armed soldiers, a futuristic flying drone, a tunnel with train tracks, a city in ruins, and a lush cave with a waterfall where two figures stand beneath the light.

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

These Curses We Bear: X-MEN x BROTHERS GRIMM Hana is cursed—but she’s not alone. Misfits. Outcasts. Abominations. Sure. But they might just be the kingdom's only hope. #QuestPit #W #DF #YA

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Watch this and try and convince me you aren't intrigued!

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AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"You want to hurt me, baby? Fine. I’ll give you everything you need to make me the monster of your story.” #QuestPit #A #Q #S

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Christian Oxford @christianoxford.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Elina has never been anything but a thief, certain that redemption is a fairy tale. But as death closes in, she can’t ignore the truth: if she’s going to die anyway, her soul replaced with a legendary hero's, wouldn’t it be better to let him take her place? Click for full image #QuestPit #Q #A #F

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SEVERANCE x SILO Nova feels too much, and it could get her mind wiped clean. She's a state memory technician erasing people's most emotionally volatile memories, until her grief unleashes a phantom who remembers everything she's erased. And he won't let her forget. #QuestPit #Q #A #S #SFF #SF #U

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Georgia Patterson is querying! @georgiapatterson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE MAD WIFE x DON’T WORRY DARLING with a southern gothic twist What if your sleep paralysis demon is more grounded in reality than you ever thought before? (P.S. this is my first ever Bluesky post!) #questpit #A #T #amquerying #PsychologicalThriller @questpit.bsky.social

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Yes, and where can I get one please? 😍

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Adrienne Trinity Reina @adriennereina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New project: Those Who Carry My Bones. When the dead god's skeleton her country is built on begins to collapse, a woman must confront her past as part of the organization responsible and reverse the damage, all while falling for a man whose life she accidentally ruined. #questpit #a #f #rf #df #w

A mood board featuring pomegranates, bone fragments in dirt, rocky and foggy mountains, and a gothic cathedral. Over it, cursive text reads, "those who carry my bones."

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Nadine Flint @nadineflintbooks.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ok hear me out: AMERICA’s GOT TALENT x PEAKY BLINDERS but with magic (and OCD) Star-crossed lovers—an anxious illusionist and a claustrophobic escape artist—enter a stage magicians competition to win their freedom from their rival crime families. #Q #A #F #RF #QuestPit #revpit ‘25 winner

A 1920s inspired moodboard, with images inside a theatre as well as black and white portraits. The text reads: Myth, Muse, Magician

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K.M. Carlson @wanderingbutton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Faith would SACRIFICE her, the zealots would WORSHIP her, the apostates would WEAPONIZE her, and the Darkness would REMAKE her in his own image. #A #DF #F #Q #Questpit #QueryingSoon

An Agent's Guide to Ashmarked
A novel by K.M. Carlson
The first lie was calling it faith.
Hand outstretched with smoke curling around it.

The pitch: When darkness incarnate breaks free from her fire-worshiping faith, a young woman discovers it's bound to her bloodline, making her the key to re-caging it. Now hunted, she must sever the tether before it consumes her.

Picture of a mannequin on fire.

The Tropes: Antagonist as Victim, Found Family, Comedic Best Friend, Forbidden Magic, Dangerous Bond with a Dark Power, Corrupt Religious Institution, Holy Lies, Weaponized Devotion, Subverted Chosen One

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M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

These Curses We Bear: X-MEN x BROTHERS GRIMM 🍂 Curses as gifts 🍂 Outcasts and misfits 🍂 Religion as control 🍂 Friendship and found family 🍂 Tangled relationships 🍂 Mothers and daughters 🍂 Dark fairytale vibes #QuestPit #W #DF #YA

A dark woodland, with text over the top outlining the plot of These Curses We Bear.

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Kat is querying! @katgoestoshows.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pumped to pitch ETERNALLY DEAD - my 107k paranormal romantic fantasy that explores what happens when an injured musician gets a second shot at stardom by joining an all-vampire rock band in the dangerous Vampire Realm 🧛‍♂️ 🩸🎸 #questpit #a #f #pr #rf #q #amquerying

Background of concert audience with giant vampire fangs floating above alongside the words "An agent's guide to: Eternally Dead, Adult Paranormal Romantic Fantasy, 107k words, by @katgoestoshows." A one sentence pitch is featured on bottom that reads: An injured musician gets a second shot at stardom -- only its by joining an all-vampire rock band in the blood-thirsty vampire realm. A red splatter of blood is splashed is corner.

Red and black background with red text at the top that reads "the blurb." The text below reads: Celia Sharpe's life-long dream of being a rockstar guitarist ended the day an accident wrecked her hand. Now a New York City concert photographer, she strictly focuses on making deadlines. But when Celia spots a mysterious stranger at a concert she can’t capture on camera, she abandons her job to follow him down an alley—only to be accidentally transported to the Vampire Realm.

Stranded and vulnerable in a world of dangerous monsters, Celia has one goal: return home ASAP. But the stranger she followed reveals that he's the bassist of all-vampire rock band Mortuus Aeternum (Eternally Dead), and he offers her a seductive opportunity: if Celia stays, the band's flirty guitarist Caliban will temporarily heal her hand so she can join Mortuus Aeternum. However, she must perform for audiences of blood-thirsty vampires, of course.

Trapped in the Vampire Realm with no way out, Celia is conflicted: she might be willing to sacrifice her freedom for Caliban's healing magic and a second chance at living her rockstar dreams, but she risks death if she doesn't find a way home. Especially when blood shortages are announced across the Vampire Realm. How will she survive?

Red and black background with a bright red title that reads THE COMPS. Below are four book covers and one movie poster that include brief descriptions beside them. The first is Fang Fiction by Kate Stayman-London and it's described as an urban fantasy in a vampire setting. Next is Bride by Ali Hazelwood, described as having a steamy romance and political intrigue. Next is The Serpent and the Wings of Night by Carissa Broadbent, described as having a human fighting to survive in a vampire world. Next is a movie poster for Almost Famous, described as music journalist + rock band = forced proximity. Last is the cover of Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, described as having a rock band with secrets and love triangles. The tropes and vibes section includes the following text: grounded fantasy, found family, diverse characters, plot twists, chronic illness rep, slow burn yearning, and twist on fated mates.

Red and black background with white text snd large red title that reds THE OPENING. Below the title is the opening of the book, which reads: Celia Sharpe slammed her palm against the closed subway doors, trying to pry open the cool metal with sweaty fingertips. The train had finally – finally – made it to the station, and she needed to get off. Now. When the doors opened at long last, she burst through them like a bat out of hell, charging towards the exit.
She couldn't miss the opening of this show, or it might be her last.

Below the opening is the word EXCERPT in large red letters, and below is text in white font. The following excerpt reads:
Caliban knelt beside her and took her hand, her breath hitching at his touch. A warm sensation transferred between his fingertips and her scar, a tingling feeling moving up her whole arm. She pulled back on instinct.
“What did you do?” she trembled, awestruck. The scar had vanished.
“It’s only temporary. Please play,” he said, his green eyes wanting.
The pain was gone. Gone. As if it had never been there at all. Her left hand curved around the guitar neck, hugging the strings. Overcome by the magic of it, Celia grinned.

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Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

☕️ THE THINGS WE RUN FOR #Editors Emma Bridge has done everything to make this plan work. She’s got the new name, the new town, the new life . . . She’s also got a nosy boy next door who’s stopping at nothing to get to know her. #QuestPit #YA #C #MY #R #AG #OS #LGBTQ #OV

Editor’s Guide To:
The Things We Run For
YA Contemporary with Romance and Mystery
82k Words
Represented by Amanda Wooden at SBR Media

4/13/1996
Run. What a powerful instinct.
Emma Bridge had wanted nothing more than to be with her two siblings in a home that felt safe, but those wishes never came true. With nothing left to lose, Emma runs away from the spotlight of the Hills to a small town across the country, but this new home is anything but the safety she’d been after.

The weight of the world has fallen on her shoulders, and she can’t carry it alone. But with her old name in every police station and her new name on every tongue in town, she’s not sure who she can trust to help carry the burden.

What we know:
-Runaway in Hiding
-Fake Identity (turned real identity)
-Mental Health Rep
-Genderfluid and Pan Rep
-Found Family
-90s Small-Town Nostalgia
At the bottom, the name Emma Bridge is crossed out and replaced with Peyton Freys

6/23/1996
“The Hills have Eyes”

There’s a collage of pictures. Picture one is of two people, one sitting on the counter with the other in front of them. Picture two is go a small-town street with snowy homes to either side. Picture three shows a row of high school desks. Picture four shows a box of police evidence. Picture five shows a group of kids sitting behind an abandoned building. Picture six shows someone flipping off a police car. Picture seven shows a paper with the words “Child Custody Hearing” printed on it. The last picture shows a boy sitting at a school desk, writing something into a notebook.

In the bottom right, it says ON SUB SOON

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Sara Duran ✨is AGENTED✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a new guide 🤍 • • • ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN 💫two exiled men (and their secrets) 💫one lunar prison (and its horrors) 💫a cosmic entity that wants them dead 💫the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive #SF #H #R #LGBT #AG

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Cassie Wallin Author @cassiewallinwrites.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

The pitch nova feels too much much and in this future it could get her mind wiped clean

Comps: severance, silo, the dram hotel, chaingang all stars

The characters. Nova the stranger and Kade

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

Poster-style graphic with a black background and heavy red blood splatter. Large distressed white and red text reads “DAD BODIES.” A dagger runs horizontally through the letters, and a 20-sided die showing low numbers appears on the right. Along the bottom are black silhouettes of heads with X-shaped eyes. Beneath, smaller text reads “ROLL FOR FUCKERY,” and at the bottom: “A co(s)mic horror novel by B. van Bodegom.”

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EvelynHail, PhD @evelynhail.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

A gothic-style book cover titled "Root and Ruin." Centered is a glowing, cyan-blue dragon coiled into a circle, its scales etched with faint, runic symbols. Golden, gnarled roots extend downward from the dragon like branching veins against the pitch-black background. Text at the top reads "Enemies to Lovers," "Fated Mates," and "Fake Identity," with "An Agent’s Guide" in the top right. Subtitle reads "80k • NA Slavic Romantasy," and the bottom logline says, "She is sent to kill the dragon. Instead, she might become his only salvation."

A graphic titled "The Comps" in golden lettering. It displays four book covers arranged in a grid: "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarelli, "Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros, "Shadow and Bone" by Leigh Bardugo, and "The Witcher: The Last Wish" by Andrzej Sapkowski.

A self-made fantasy illustration showing a halfway transformed, dark-haired man, Prince Konstantin Veliki, with a silver crown and dragon wings. He is carrying a woman, a humble servant Iva, masquerading as a Duchess Zora, in a long, flowing cream-colored gown as they fly through the air. She is his guest but unbeknownst to him, she is plotting to poison him. In the background, a sprawling forest surrounds a magic academy, Kolegium with colorful, traditional Slavic-style onion domes—gold, silver, bronze and green. Each of the domes represents air, water, fire and earth magic respectively. Snippet text at the bottom reads: "Do you always sequester your guests and take flight with them?"

A self-made illustration set in the catacombs under the magic academy, Kolegium, featuring classical-style statues on the walls. Iva, in dark armor, rides a bright, light blue-scaled dragon; it is Prince Konstantin Veliki in his dragon form.
They face off against a monstrous, ethereal shadow dragon composed of wispy, black smoke and glowing eyes — this is Konstantin’s fallen father Tibor Veliki. A brilliant golden sphere of light, relic of the Slavic god of light, Belobog, called Spark of Creation, floats on a pedestal between them. Text at the bottom of the snippet reads: "Let us dance, little one," the Shadow Dragon hisses in a dry whisper of the fallen. "A worthy foe," Konstantin responds. We take to the air to meet the darkness. Two gargantuan winged silhouettes hover in the abyss, suspended in a precarious balance. They mirror one another; two sides of the same coin, champions of Belobog and Chernobog.

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Nina Castle @castlemantra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

UGLIES X 50 SHADES 🛌frenemies w/ benefits 💔sexy & traumatized 👊"touch him, & you...well, it won’t be good." 💸disinherited billionaire romance 🌎soft love in a harsh world #Questpit #Q #A #D #R #agentguide "I seriously think about [the characters] daily." -agent w/ my full

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Chantal Danieli — is querying MSU! 🕯️ @chantaldanieli.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

JANE EYRE x THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA 🕯️forbidden gothic romance 🕯️slow burn 🕯️yearning à la anthony bridgerton 🕯️black swan-esque awakening 🕯️2000’s setting 🕯️devouring obsession but make it consensual 🕯️secret lake meetings #questpit #W #A #NA #R

First Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman sprawled over a man lying on a chaise. Depiction of Romeo & Juliet.

Book Title: My Sweet Unbecoming
A Forbidden Gothic Romance
Coming to agent inboxes September 2026

Second Graphic:

An Oil Painting of a woman staring deeply into a canvas. The art on the canvas is a man in uniform standing as the muse.

Comps and Pitch
Jane Eyre
The Viscount Who Loved Me
The Phantom Of The Opera

When a scandal exiles her to Lucerne, disgraced Olivia Rooney falls for the one man she’s forbidden to love—Théodore Chair-Beaumont, the brooding aristocrat sworn to matrimony with another.
But beneath his restraint lies a wound that mirrors her own. And falling for him could not only repeat the tragedy that broke him once before. It could ruin her reputation, once and for all.

Third Graphic:

Tropes.

Forbidden Romance.
High Society Match Making.
European Setting.
Slow Burn.
Love VS Duty.
Black Swan-esque Awakening.
Masquerade Ball.
2000’s Setting.
Obsessive Yearning.
Secret Lake Meetings.

Fourth Graphic:

Snippets:

His hunger transcends anything as simple as lust. A perfect replica of my own.
Our appetite goes beyond the physical. What we starve for is not the body, but the soul.
Spirits, which I'm certain, have known each other for millennia—longing and finding one another, again and again against all odds.
Nothing can come between what is immaterial.
Even less so when it is destined
A divine homecoming.
He is the vessel of my existence. The missing half that completes me. There is no him without me. And without him, there is no me.
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And how do I tell him I'd gladly crawl beneath his armor, inside his clothes and past his skin? Fight myself through sinews and bone, every ligament and essence that makes him him, and live on solely to keep his soul free of any pain?
Caretaker of his soul for eternity.
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A touch, as soft as a feather.
The dull edges of fingernails.
Deliberate and as exquisitely slow as molasses.
I arch into these luxuries like a cat wanting for more.
Hum at the whispery strokes as they comb through my scalp, down my hair, in pursuit of my jaw and finally my décolleté.
I know it's him.
Scent him like a vampire would sweet blood.

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

CORPSE BRIDE × 50 FIRST DATES × WARM BODIES A bored immortal mortician resurrects the woman of his dreams—again and again. But love becomes obsession, and she's decaying faster than he can let go. #QuestPit #A #H #R #W

This vertical poster for "The Immortician" features a black-and-white high-contrast composition with gold-toned typography.
Top: The title "The Immortician" is written in a serif font with gold gradients, framed by a black ornamental archway.
Center: A black silhouette of a long-haired figure in a gown stands against a white background. Parts of the silhouette, specifically the head and arms, appear to be disintegrating into small particles.
Middle: Three words—"Love.", "Obsession.", and "Decay."—are spaced horizontally across the center in a black serif font.
bottom: A Novel by B. Van Bodegom

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❄️ ⓐ. ⓡ. ⓛⓔⓔ ❄️ is querying @itsamabee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hello firefly✨ Welcome to An Artistic Deception🏰✨🪄 Complete at 108k words, a new adult romantasy six of crows x a deadly education 😘 Welcome to our #LiteraryAgentGuide for #QuestPit All design is by @aeipathea & character art by @h4mm.iee #Q #R #F #A #QuestPit2026

hello firefly a photo of a the author literary agent guide

When the six kingdoms prestigious magic school announces a formidable trial promising freedom and noble status, Tehtte’s most notorious assassin Agni enters an uneasy alliance with her second worst nightmare: her childhood bane and the city’s Lionheart Knight—Fala.

Now, surviving her penultimate year is the least of her worries. Agni is still drowning in her failure of an ancient prophecy, running from the monsters her people became, and trying to hide from a king hell bent on finding her. As the realms brace for the perilous trials, Agni is confronted with a haunting question: is her prophecy’s fulfillment still yet to come, and is her heart truly hers to lose?

agni ain’t no war like the class war

fala women want me fish fear me showing character art

romantasy - arcana academy
ensemble cast - six of crows
deadly magic school - a deadly education
visual world inspiration - witch hat atelier
right person wrong time - frown
reimagined fantasy races - dungeon meshi

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K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

THE EXORCIST X DONNIE DARKO Chris is plagued with seeing shadow people, but an encounter with a powerful Eldritch being known as The Hatman, leaves him possessed and desperate to exorcise the entity attached to him before he loses control and becomes a demon himself. #QuestPit #Q #H

'Hat' - 84K, Cosmic Horror Querying Soon.
Pitch: Chris is obsessed with light and nature's patterns after a Shadow Person nearly killed him as a child. He tries to focus on important things, like finding a way to get his goth girl crush Mel to share a joint or two. Until the Hatman. He imbues Chris with his essence, bonding them. If Chris was haunted by Shadows before, now he is possessed.
Tropes: 2000's set
Spooky New ENgland
Amature Witchcraft
Nature
moon stuff
Stoner Goths
nu-Metal Playlist
Comps - The Possession of Alba Diaz. Slewfoot. 13 Months Haunted

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